LOL - David Gregory's NSA Source=His Wife

[kpete]

New York Times columnist David Brooks was on the Meet the Press panel to say that there's probably a need to rein in some of the NSA's activities. But he made clear that this should not "legitimize" whistleblower Edward Snowden, who Brooks derides as a "narcissist"– a familiar media smear against Snowden.
But then, later on in the show came this from host Gregory:

I should mention… my wife who is in law enforcement who you know well, said the fact that it is so broad, that this bulk collection is so broad, is what makes it safer. Because the government is not concerned about who is looking at what website. They are really just collecting data to be able to protect the country.

So the mass collection of everyone's phone metadata is actually a good thing. because the government is grabbing everything in order to protect us. At least, that's what Gregory's high level source tells him.

http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/12/23/david-gregorys-nsa-source-his-wife/

[MADem]

1. Beth Wilkinson is hardly situated to comment decisively on such matters.

She worked in the Justice Department under Clinton, but there's a lotta water under the bridge since those days. She worked for Fannie Mae in the Bush years, briefly, but now she's at a private law firm.

I'm not sure how FAIR makes the leap that she's "NSA" and I think Gregory was just being lame and reiterating a dinner table conversation. She was in "law enforcement" in that she worked at Justice in the ninties, in fact, she was involved in the McVeigh bombing business, but anything she worked with or saw back then is ancient history--hell, most people were still on "dial up" back then.

[JoePhilly]

2. Well, case closed then.

That guy is a dunce.

[Berlum]

3. Republicon propagandists like Gregory are a pox upon the planet